1. Evaluation of a selective chromogenic medium for detecting vancomycin-resistant enterococci
- Author
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Renata Oliveira Soares, Gustavo Enck Sambrano, Thiago G. S. Paim, Adriana Medianeira Rossato, Juliana Caierão, Neidimar Cezar Correa Tolfo, and Pedro Alves d'Azevedo
- Subjects
0301 basic medicine ,food.ingredient ,030106 microbiology ,lcsh:QR1-502 ,Microbial Sensitivity Tests ,Microbiology ,lcsh:Microbiology ,Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci ,03 medical and health sciences ,Feces ,food ,Enterococcus spp ,Agar ,Medicine ,Humans ,Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections ,Bacteriological Techniques ,Chromogenic ,business.industry ,biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,Culture Media ,Rapid identification ,business ,Research Paper - Abstract
Rapid identification of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) can assist in choosing the appropriate treatment and preventing VRE spread. The performance of chromIDTM VRE agar was evaluated using 184 clinical isolates of Enterococcus spp. and reference strains. The test had a sensitivity of 95.52% but a low specificity of 30%.
- Published
- 2017